Working alongside Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy, our team developed a robot designed to traverse wind turbine blades and perform precision grinding operations to improve the safety and efficiency of ...

Oregon State University researchers are part of a team looking at reducing bird collision risks with wind turbines by ...

There’s an environmental downside to wind farming and that’s the number ... they are suggesting—it’s economical as well. Just painting basic black-and-white stripes on the turbine masts and blades is ...

On Aug. 18, a city employee saw a skid loader with a stump grinder attachment next to a wind turbine blade, Christian said. It was Warmka, and his grinding created a cloud. “It isn’t just dust ...

On Feb. 27, lightning reportedly struck the same Vineyard Wind turbine that had a blade failure in July 2024. Here's what we know.

Two companies are partnering to tackle one of the wind energy industry’s most persistent challenges—and they may set a world record in the process. On Monday, the equipment manufacturer ...

This then raises the question of what to do with these giant waste blades. Thankfully, a variety of projects are exploring just those possibilities. Around 85% of a modern wind turbine is recyclable.

Farmers once used windmills to grind their grains and pump water. Today, more and more wind turbines wring electricity from the breeze. Over the past decade, wind turbine use has increased more ...